{"id":94843,"date":"2019-11-06T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94843"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:26:43","slug":"pms-office-asks-kashyapa-thero-to-propose-amendments-to-mcc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/06\/pms-office-asks-kashyapa-thero-to-propose-amendments-to-mcc-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"PM\u2019s Office asks Kashyapa Thero to propose amendments to MCC deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Charitha Ratwatte has forwarded a copy of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement to Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter attached to the copy, Senior Advisor Ratwatte has requested the Thero to submit a proposal of necessary amendments to be made to the Agreement, should the Thero deem the content in the Agreement may harm the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the letter had corrected the name of the Agreement which was mentioned on a banner during the protest fast as the \u2018Millennium City Development Corporation Agreement\u2019 to \u2018Millennium Challenge Corporation Agreement\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thero, last morning (05), commenced a protest fast calling for the government not to ink the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Thero called off his fast this morning (06) after receiving letters from the two presidential front-runners Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa as well as PM Ranil Wickremesinghe assuring that the MCC Agreement will not be signed before the Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/rwv0njpg\/The-Letter-sent-to-Ven-Ududumbara-Kashyapa-Thero.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Charitha Ratwatte has forwarded a copy of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement to Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thero. In a letter attached to the copy, Senior Advisor Ratwatte has requested the Thero to submit a proposal of necessary amendments to be made to the Agreement, should the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}